DOR Budget Sheds No Light on DCF Proposal to Cut TANF Support for the CreditWill the state’s Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) be cut again in the 2013-15 biennial budget, after it was reduced in the last budget? I noted in a Budget Project Blog post last week that the budget request unveiled last Monday by Department of Children and...
Modest Improvements in Poverty and Insurance Coverage, but Many Wisconsinites Are Still Feeling Effects of the RecessionThe Wisconsin economy has been slowly recovering from the Great Recession for a couple of years now, and small signs of that recovery can be seen in the newly released census data for 2011. But the new figures from...
Medicaid Budget Doesn't Reflect ACA Measures and Is Likely to Change Substantially by JanuaryThe Department of Health Services and other state agencies submitted their budget requests to the Dept. of Administration on Monday. All or nearly all of those requests can now be found on the DOA website.In a cover letter to DOA, Secretary...
The percentage of Americans with health insurance through an employer has been declining rapidly over the past decade. The following chart illustrates that trend (using two-year averages from the Current Population Survey data released yesterday), and it highlights the importance of measures in the health care reform law to help...
Wisconsin Numbers Are Worrisome, but We’ll Reserve Judgment until More Precise Figures Are Unveiled Next WeekFigures released Wednesday by the U.S Census Bureau show that the number of uninsured Americans fell by more than 1.3 million in 2011. That’s just the second decrease in the last decade and the largest decline during that...
“The vast majority of American workers have not benefited from the nation’s economic growth over the past three decades,” according to the findings of "The State of Working America," 12th edition. This comprehensive analysis of trends for working Americans, which was released today by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), shows that the...
At a briefing in Milwaukee this afternoon, Community Advocates Public Policy Institute presented a policy agenda for reducing poverty in Wisconsin by more than 50 percent. A rigorous analysis of the proposals by the Urban Institute concludes that the proposed package of policies could reduce the state's poverty rate “by 58 to 66...
Tips for parents to help make sure their kids start the school year healthy…and stay that way.
Judicial Challenge to MOE Likely to Be Less Relevant than Congressional ChallengeA lawsuit filed Tuesday by the State of Maine could have very significant implications in Wisconsin and many other states if the courts strike down the portion of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) requiring states to maintain their current levels of Medicaid...
"The Wisconsin Early Learning Coalition strongly supports investments to help child care programs improve quality under YoungStar. With a recent emphasis of the Read to Lead initiative on third grade reading proficiency and extraordinary evidence of the effectiveness of investments in the early years, Wisconsin should build on the solid...
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